Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days of doubt and anxiety following the stock-market crash, U.S. banks got a public vote of confidence as Americans rushed to put more of their money into nice, solid, federally insured savings and checking accounts. That was a far cry from the 1920s and '30s, when frightened investors hustled to their banks and clamored to withdraw their money. But even though angry mobs are rarely battering at their doors, today's banks and thrifts are being rocked by tremors just as dangerous as those of half a century...
...Soviet credentials suggest that he may be at least somewhat more amenable to Gorbachev's demands for reform than Husak was. In his first speech as party leader, Jakes used some of the "democratic" buzz words of the Soviet leader's reform campaign. In any case, there was little doubt that Jakes's selection had been vetted by the Kremlin. Gorbachev, who made little secret of his dislike of Husak, sent a congratulatory message to Jakes, predicting that his appointment would lead to the "further development and revival of Socialism on Czechoslovak soil." When the local party daily Rude Pravo...
...Miranda sought protection at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City in late October, Humberto Ortega charged that his deputy had been "touched by the CIA" a month earlier. Miranda claims that the defection was his own idea, born of a mounting disillusionment with the Sandinista regime. There seems little doubt that at least some of his information is accurate. As Ortega's right-hand man, Miranda had access to high-level meetings and sensitive documents. Ortega has conceded that Miranda's defection was the "most important betrayal" ever suffered by the Sandinista People's Army. But last week an army...
There was virtually no talk of children, homes or hobbies. The Soviet leader was at work. In his forceful way, Gorbachev left little doubt that he cast ^ himself as a man of destiny, that his reforms would make or break the Soviet nation. Looking straight at Cheney, he said, "This is the only opportunity we will have...
However obscure Gorbachev was about his secret hardware, he left no doubt that the SDI issue was no longer an obstacle to an agreement on strategic cuts. This was a considerable concession from the Soviets, whose insistence on nipping Star Wars in the bud had led them to link SDI restrictions to the tentative wide-ranging agreements reached at the Reykjavik summit last year. Yet the Soviets have long pursued a tactic of linking and unlinking and then relinking SDI to other agreements; the idea is sure to come back to haunt a START agreement before the two leaders...